Bush beans. I just planted some a week or so ago.

Depends a lot where you are.

I seem to have a similar schedule as you, although I plant garlic mid October. I have successfully planted / harvested bush beans, turnips, radishes, zucchini, beets, kohlrabi, cilantro, and dill. Could probably try lettuce, peas, spinach, green onions, carrots.

Agree, Bush Beans, just replanted in the space my garlic was in, though I rotate crops around the garden and garlic will be somewhere else come Oct.

I use daikon and turnips in those beds. They are accessible by deer, and they do not touch any of these (garlic, onion, daikon, turnip and potatoes too). Beans would be nice but would get mowed at my site.

You aim for short season vegetables, in cabbage and root groups. Beans have to be short season.

Short DTM (50 days or so) broccoli works pretty well for me here in 6A Missouri. I start from seed indoors in early July, plant out in early August, and harvest main heads in late September to early October. Pull the plants a week or so before you want to plant the garlic and amend the bed with a couple inches of compost and some balanced fertilizer. You will miss out on a few weeks of side shoots though. I like a type called Early Dividend which is 45 DTM.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I've never developed a taste for bush beans so won't grow them. I'll try some of the others although I haven't usually had much success with, for instance turnips, planted in the heat of summer. An option is just to plant a cover crop / green manure for mowing come October. I have banner beans (a not very edible fava) and crimson clover. Either or both of those might thrive.

I'm migrating to a different gardening site as I'm fed up with that ugly Houzz banner coming up and blanketing half my screen while I'm trying to read.

I'm trying

http://www.helpfulgardener.com;

Happy with it so far.

I've been to that site. The vegetable gardening forum over there gets some activity but most from only a handful of posters, the rest of the forums crickets.

check out this chart. planting chart

Right now in my three raised garlic beds- since I am not planting garlic there this fall, it's time for a rotation- I have carrots, beets, and radishes. For what does not pop up I'm planning on some kale for overwintering, maybe try an experimental broccoli or two. It would probably be smarter of me to do a cover crop, but I never have good luck with those- I have the bad tendency to let them grow too much and not utilize them properly as a cover crop, lol.

LoneJack Zn 6a, KC "What Houzz banner? I only get the Houzz banner pop up ......."

What Houzz banner? ;)

daninthedirt(Cent TX; HZ10, Sunset z30, USDA z8a)

"Depends a lot where you are."

Yes. Vancouver Island, B.C. (British Columbia)

(Canada)

Vanisle_BC - tried to change my username to include more info but couldn't get it to "stick."

I don't like the Houzz banner either, but I use Firefox and found an add-on called "Remove it Permanently" (RIP for short) and it removes whatever parts of a website you don't like! Yippee...pretty easy to un-remove something if you want it back.

Beets,chard,radishes,mustard/other greens.zuchinni.sort of depends on what your summer is like,too.